Talk:Jeanette Epps

Soyuz MS-09
Jeanette Epps has been replaced by backup crew Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor for the Soyuz MS-09 flight.

Source (German, sorry): http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/alexander-gerst-deutscher-astronaut-bekommt-neue-iss-kollegin-a-1188637.html

Announcement should become more widely available shortly (should already be out there, but I wasn't able to find a NASA source atm).

--2001:1C00:1C01:7C00:A945:55D6:F3C:15CB (talk) 20:12, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Another Yvonne Cagle ? Hektor (talk) 15:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Firsts, seconds, thirds?
This paragraph from the is out of date:
 * On August 25, 2020, NASA announced that Epps would join the first operational mission of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station. According to The New York Times, Epps "would be the first Black woman to be part of an I.S.S. crew." African-American astronauts were members of space-shuttle crews during ISS construction, until Victor Glover none had become a crew member making an extended stay.

Since Epps's roll in Boeing Starliner-1 was announced, both Glover and Watkins have completed long-duration stays on Station. At this point, is being the 2nd Black woman and 3rd Black astronaut doing so sufficiently notable for those rankings to be mentioned, or should those two lines simply be removed? -- ToE 16:57, 22 February 2023 (UTC)